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![“I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and from Artie Shaw's verbal abuse. But George [C. Scott] was a different category of animal when he got drunk. He'd break into my hotel room, which he did in…” quote by Ava Gardner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/953/ava-gardner-8168_abuse_i-dealt-with-men-who-had-tempers-and-who_2636922.jpg)
![“[London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and so much diversity. It's just a perfect place to grow up. I studied at the Guildhall every Saturday so I'd always be in town every weekend doing that. I was kind of a city boy really.” quote by Douglas Booth](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c51/douglas-booth-9139_boys_london-is-one-of-the-best-cities-in-the_2703600.jpg)
![“[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.” quote by Susan Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e62/susan-mitchell-38003_atmosphere_on-writer-george-moore-i-grew-curious-ab_1758337.png)
